Rapid Round-up: Trump-Kim Summit

Author(s)
Se Young Jang, Michael Cohen, Sang Hyun Lee, Olga Krasnyak, Francis Grice, Daniel Fazio, Sarah A. Son, Stephen R. Nagy, Lauren Richardson
Abstract

In this special Policy Forum Rapid Round-up, experts help sort the substance from the spectacle of the historic Trump-Kim meeting.

It was the off-again on-again meeting that has ignited the world’s inspiration and indignation. On Tuesday 12 June, Donald Trump shook hands with Kim Jong-un – the first time in history that a North Korean leader has met with a sitting US President. The two leaders who only last year traded threats and insults sat down for face-to-face talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

So what did the two leaders actually agree to? Is the meeting another major step toward peace and denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula, or a continuation of the status quo? And what happens now? We asked the experts.

Organisation(s)
Department of History
External organisation(s)
ANU National Security College (NSC), Sejong Institute, National Research University Higher School of Economics, McDaniel College, University of South Australia, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada), Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), Canadian Global Affairs Institute, Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Australian National University
Publication date
06-2018
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
506007 International relations, 601022 Contemporary history, 601008 Science of history
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/rapid-roundup-trumpkim-summit(10df1607-937b-481c-8bf3-78e243c5ab41).html